Buy Gold...schlager: Booze Inflation Highest In 20 Years

Americans can handle soaring rent, gas, and even food prices (all those thing that the Fed conveniently ignores) with the stoic patience of a Greek who welcomes 160 German tax collectors on his rehypothecated front porch. But if there is one thing that is sure to kindle the revolutionary spirits it is the soaring price of booze. As it just so happens, ships are parked in the Boston harbor with crates of Grey Goose prepped for tossage overboard as we speak. As the following chart of alcoholic beverage inflation indicates, courtesy of John Lohman, January saw the biggest month over month spike in booze inflation in 20 years. In other words, about 90% of all traders alive today have never seen a bigger jump in liquor inflation in their lives. Then again, with nobody trading any more, and since the new venue du jour of most of said now ex-traders is the local watering hole, perhaps we are seeing demand pull inflation in at least one item. Needless to say, there is something very ironic that surging alcohol inflation is the only thing that is resilient to the central banks (un)sterilized liquidity explosion. The good news: there is distinct relative deflation in the cost of ammunition. At least for the time being...

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Good for liquor inflation, I want to offload some more crates of Lafite Rothschild to buy some more gold and machine gun ammunition and some tanks for my natural gas holdings. Would rather be able to shoot the enemy efficiently than get drunk at this point.

Its only a rumor, and not that I knew such folks personally of course, but I sorta kinda heard of a guy who used to get very large amounts of that "Black Gold" gold stamp in kilo bricks back in the 80's. Supposedly it was coming from the Mujahideen freedom fighters to fund their war against godless communism.

I doubt its true, and Im sure the noble fighters against communism wouldnt have resorted to such means to fund their wars against an aggressor... errr... I mean those filthy terrorists were probably trying to undermine apple pie and baseball even then. Clear proof that Islam is our enemy, and we have always been at war with Eurasia! Or is it Eastasia? Heck, whoever the defenders of freedom at DHS want it to be!Damn those terrorists!

Anyone who fights communism is a friend of mine...glad I could help in the struggle for freedom once upon a time...lol.

Of course anything can be used as a "revenue stream"...from subsidized solar to a plantation welfare state. It's used for those who have control over it. It's just the pious pontificating assholes that piss me off more than anything.

If one is going to live it...live it, breath it.

Don't turn around and point fingers and say (Bwaney Fwank) that I did this for the downtrodden when he had more bank lobbyist's on his staff than any other representative as far as I can tell. Or Dodd, who's wife worked for an offshore financial operation in the Cayman's as he railed against offshoring wealth.

Or that grand "populist" so beloved here on the pages of ZH (Alan Grayson) who, having been trained in finance and contract law promptly lost a portion of his fortune overseas, under a contract, which he wrote off.

Yes, revenues work for those fortunate enough for them to flow in their general direction...no doubt.

I thought I'd wait for it to die down a little here first before speaking my mind because I didn't want you to take offense...this is not directed at you...it's a general observation of us, all of us.

We live in a society now where we have doctors & lawyers & congresscritters & presidents who have openly admitted they've smoked pot...some have admitted to cocaine.

This is the same society where they are allowed to openly, blatantly lie. Some are even praised for their prowess at lying. As if it is meritorious.

I came to a decision about a month ago regarding myself.

As we are dealing with accomplished liars and thieves in high places and these thieves and liars rely on us to tell the truth in order for them to carry on taking advantage of any and every given situation...I am now giving fair warning to any and all honest men & women at ZH posthoc.

Anything I have said from thirty days ago until now or that I will ever say again...could very well be a lie.

You aren't going to hurt my feelings hurting yourself by injesting shit. Personally, I don't care what you put into your body, but I do care what it brings into a community.

In Widowmakers perfect universe, between us and ZH, "if it grows it goes." All the synthetics are much worse than pot at the individual and collective/community level. I've known MANY so called professionals that you mention; but there is no difference between smoking pot and drinking and driving when it puts others at risk and breaking the law.

However, it pollutes all the causes you stand for when you disobey the law, same as everyone else. It marginalizes your opinions and positions -- I've read your work, you have a lot to say, but use that focus to change for the greater good, not to show that you too are as fallable as those you critique.

Case in point...our contract law goes back through the Magna Carta. The principle being, those who sign a contract do so voluntarily.

As a forced contract is, of course coercion. Our judicial system has always said these types of contracts are illegal.

Now, we have a government "law" which not only forces a contract but makes arbitrary decisions affecting peoples lives under the guise of this "law".

This is despotism.

You know it and I know it.

As our law has been circumvented by despots that rely on emotion, our good nature and goodwill toward our fellow man to complete and pursue their unjust and unlawful acts...I am no longer under any obligation to speak any truth that they can hear or write any truth that they can read.

It is they who have destroyed the trust of society and they (and you/others) who will have to vet my every word...just like our former contracts and compacts.

There is nothing to bind us accept our honor and I'm proclaiming here and now that I can be one of the most dishonorable pricks any stranger would ever want to meet.

All that is fine, but it matters not if breaking the law is singular or a collective (socialized crime inc / gov't). The argument of justifying bad behavior by attributing worse behavior is fruitless.

Frankly, when I read your post I now know that YOU know there is a process and you respect it (or what it was). My point is changes to both bullshit economic wars like drugs and crony-finance occur by the same process.

If you don't like the law, change it. Most are too lazy as it's easy to rip a bong and complain. Put the bong down and take the first step, raise awareness for whatever cause that is. Doing so is the ONLY way to proceed as it respects the law (everyone else), and uses the tools that actually work for that change.

The hammer may be old and rusty but it can still pound the largest stakes. By using the rusty process, guys like me will vote in favor of ending the war on drugs for you, even though drugs are bad for you.

Would you give up Medicare entitlement (public health care in general) for pot, or smoking of any sort?

Hey Tyler, could ZH start an official "Barter" section where we faithful ZHers can trade, for example, our crates of booze for weaponry? This would be an inestimable practical addition to ZH for us. You could even add a 2% surcharge for ZH like PayPal does. The surcharge revenue might come in handy when you want to upgrade your servers, or buy some information, etc.

not just saturation, HK money tap has been running on empty since last fall... Ask our friend chindit13. I just don't personally think the stuff is worth the premium right now, and the production stats on Lafite - vis-a-vis natural demand from people (such as myself) who actually drink $1k+ bottles - aren't conducive to speculation. Just my opinion, ymmv...

Yes, I agree, it is not worth the premium, that is why I am dumping it. LOL. (Mostly to Chinese buyers via EZ conduits). Plus, you are right, there is tons of this stuff, much more than people imagine. 1st growths are over-produced (albeit in finite quantities) by comparison to a smaller vineyard like Petrus. It is really a matter of HK and China still searching for Western luxury status trinkets. If that no longer is feasible, then the 1sts will go back to $200 where they should be anyhow. Sp please, HK, let's keep the ball rolling.

I grew up in Somerset county pennsylvania, the site of the whiskey rebellion....General washington came to collect a tax from guys who made whiskey for barter, they had no money.....folks still wanted that whiskey now we have burbon county kentucky...

Because of hard liqour's inherent volatility and other factors, since its heroic burning of women and children at Waco in April, 1994 the ATF has deleted hard liquor from its BII (booze inflation index). Shadow Stats reports that the newer ATF model understates true BII by at least 5 percentage points. I hope there aren't any women or children working at Shadow Stats, afterall, heroism has no bounds!

the "corruption cycle" always takes longer to be effected than the business cycle for some reason. go figure. their inflation loving insanity will be effected however--no matter how long the shelf life. eventually...the cost of water (basically zero in the USA) will win out.